Labor Law

We specialize in all aspects of advice to employers: individual employment matters, senior management arrangements, advanced compensation systems, litigation, labor relations and restructuring processes, amoungst others.

INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYMENT MATTERS

We provide strategic employment and human resources advice to domestic and multinational enterprises, ensuring the most advantageous application of employment and social security legislation in the ordinary management of companies.

The services provided by Spanish Legal counsel offer the utmost versatility and the highest level of expertise in the employment law and HR area. These services include:

• Advice on the day-to-day running of the business.
• Employment contracts, reductions in social security contributions and special working conditions.
• Remuneration and compensation systems (bonus systems, flexible remuneration, shares and stock options, pension commitments).
• Internal policies and protocols.
• Holding in abeyance and termination of individual employment relationships
• Disciplinary system
• Geographical and functional mobility. Material modifications to working conditions.
• Senior management: contracts, special covenants, golden parachute clauses, non-compete clauses, incorporation into the hierarchical structure of the company, termination of senior managers.
• Professional artistes and sportsmen and women.
• Expatriate workers.
• Social security registration and contributions.
• Social security and employee welfare benefits and services.
• Equality plans.
• Training plans.
• Temporary employment agencies.
• Occupational risk prevention.
• Due diligence reviews and advice on restructuring processes (acquisitions, mergers, spin-offs, carve-outs).
• Requests for guidance submitted to the authorities
• Legislative developments.

LITIGATION

We are particularly conscious of the need to avoid disputes in court and therefore provide preemptive advice aimed at finding an amicable solution to disputes on the most advantageous terms for the employer.

Our services include:

• Case preparation, assistance and appearance before the labor inspection authorities in matters involving assessments for social security contribution deficiencies or proceedings for notified labor or occupational risk prevention infringements, or any other proceeding.
• Drafting of all kinds of documents: complaints, submissions, evidence requests, appeals in the administrative jurisdiction and before the labor courts and judicial review courts.
• Appeals and any formalities required at any instance until a final judgment is obtained (courts, high courts, National Appellate Court, Supreme Court and Constitutional Court).

LABOR RELATIONS

We are specialized in the proper management of relations with directly- and union-elected representatives of the workers as an essential part of the HR strategy. Offering recurring advice on the structuring of labor relations at companies or corporate groups in all industries and geographical areas, on processes to elect workers’ representatives, on collective bargaining scenarios (industry-wide collective labor agreements, accords and agreements at companies and corporate groups, etc.) as well as on processes affecting collective working conditions (whether or not provided for in a collective labor agreement), and on modifications to the legal business structure (mergers, spin-offs, carve-outs, transfers of business lines, outsourcing and insourcing processes, etc.)

RESTRUCTURING PROCESSES WITHIN COMPANIES

We are able to bear our full level of experience in the most high-profile and complex cases in the Spanish economy and in all areas of business, including, among others, the automotive industry and the industrial sector in general, the chemical industry (laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, manufacturing), construction, IT, consulting, banking and financial institutions, the insurance industry, the agri-food industry, tourism, the media (press, television), advertising and the services sector.

We are experts in defining strategies and coordinating with consultants and other third parties, particularly in insolvency proceedings, as well as in negotiations with employees. We also act as a liaison with labor unions, the labor inspection authorities, and with central and autonomous government authorities.